The Waldoboro Artist-of-the-Month for November and December is Jon Byrer. His art will available for viewing during library open hours. Please call the library at 207-932-4484 or visit the website at waldoborolibrary.org for more information.

Waldoboro Public Library provides the following artist biography and artist statement for Jon Byrer:

Artist Bio 

Maine College of Art graduate with a degree in Fine Arts and Photography. Jon lives and works in the Maine midcoast. He creates fine art paintings, experimental photography, watercolor illustrations, ink drawings, collage, and plays and records music with multiple instruments. One goal is to bring his art to everyone which is why he has shown his art in many libraries throughout Maine.

Artist statement

I do not touch the canvas to manipulate the paint in this innovative process. Art created with serendipitous puddles. I start with the 5 colors: red, yellow, blue, black and white. I lay the canvas horizontally. Then I mix the different colors of paint slightly and poured it onto the flat canvas.

By pouring a puddle here and a puddle there, the vision of the landscape appears. The mixing marbled colors are frozen in place when dried but maintain their swirling sense of movement. This technique reimagines how paintings are traditionally created without using an easel or paint brush or even touching the canvas. Without any re-working or way to correct what is poured onto the canvas, the mixing of paint and pouring becomes a conversation with the paint. The use of intuition only can be compared to a day long jazz song. Each pouring cup of paint is a note of inspiration which creates the song as a whole. The puddles of mixing swirling liquid paint emerge as familiar scenes of Maine’s splendor of the everyday.

My artistic vision reimagines how to paint and attempts to take the poured paint landscapes to my own place within the art world. Thank you for looking at my work and I hope you enjoy it.